SHORT INFO
Based on simple materials, which are also used in building construction and civil engineering, among other things, we create
Dupaquier's works through repetitive gestures and in layers. The possibilities of the
material, be it by bending, folding, filling or sanding. Your also physically
The challenging way of working incorporates the "chance in the material" and is always based on a
minimalist understanding of form.
Cécile Dupaquier (*1970) also develops site-specific installations in dialog with the architecture of the
exhibition space and conceives and realizes large-scale projects and public artworks in
France, Germany and Switzerland. Most recently, Dupaquier won 1st prize for an art in architecture project in 2021.
Project for the BKA, Berlin.
https://ceciledupaquier.com
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2023 | dark shining bright, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2017 | Wall Works, Gallery Daniel Marzona, Berlin |
| 2016 | private viewing, Fürbringerstrasse 20, Berlin |
| 2015 | depot interim, Atelier Wilhelmstraße 16 e.V, Stuttgart Multi Pli, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin |
| 2013 | Das Versteck, Ozean, Berlin |
| 2012 | Epaves, Musée Georges Garret, Vesoul (F) |
| 2008 | Par déduction, Galerie de l'école Supérieure d'Arts de Brest (F) |
| 2006 | Extension! Réduction!, Espace Arts plastiques, Vénissieux (F) |
| 2005 | Accumulation! Extension!, Gallery Piano Nobile, Geneva (CH) |
| 2003 | 1m/seconde, Galerie du Dourven, Brittany (F) |
| 2001 | ArtLiaisonBonnLyon, Kunstmuseum Bonn |
| 2000 | Il arrive que rien n'arrive, Galerie Piano Nobile, Geneva (CH) |
| 1999 | Tentative de rapprochement, L'Arteppes, Annecy (F) |
| 1998 | Vidéogramme 4 (videochronics), Galerie Interface MMM, Marseille (F) |
| 1998 | j.e.v.o.u.l.a.i.s.v.o.u.s.d.i.r.e., Galerie le Faubourg, Strasbourg (F) |
| 1998 | 528 heures, 400 sacs d'eau, 1 goutte à goutte et buée, Institut français, Stuttgart |
| 1997 | Passe-moi le sel, Galerie la BF15, Lyon (F) |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2025 | Architecture of Conversation: Cécile Dupaquier & Stefan Heinrich Ebner, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg ...And Going On. the Drj 100th - a Mail-art Project, drj art projects, Berlin |
| 2024 | The Burkhard Brunn Collection h8h.space Frankfurt/Main Dear Future Me, Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne Losito Art Prize 2024, Losito*Kressmann-Zschach Foundation, di Galerie, Berlin Piece Of Cake #2, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Dragoner.02 - Super Contemporary Arts Fest, DRAGONER02, Berlin White, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin |
| 2023 | Forms gangs, SETAREH, Berlin Minimal", Larc, Grasse Joue-la encore, Sam (municipal collection of Vénissieux), Center d'art Madeleine Lambert, Venissieux The Joy of Gestures, Palais Eger, Berlin Relief, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin Relief, Loop - Space for Contemporary Art, Berlin Geschnitten Brot, Zwinger Galerie, Berlin hier und jetzt, Basement, Berlin |
| 2022 | blind vision, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin Et même la matière parle, Siège de l'Ordre des experts-comptables, Paris random repeat refine, Kunstverein Ingolstadt Die Obiger Galaxy, Axel Obiger, Berlin Metalinien, curated by Rüdiger Lange, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin random repeat refine, Gallery Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin |
| 2021 | очумелая выставка, Museum Ploshad Mira, Krasnoyarsk, commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Novosibirsk for the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale 2021 (RU) Le soleil se lève aussi, un-spaced Gallery at Manifesta, Lyon Prismatiques, stratégie des petites faces, Le 19 - CRAC, Montbéliard |
| 2020 | ArtVerona yellow", un-spaced Gallery at online exhibition Art Verona all over, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Accumulation (suite 2020), performance at the opening of "Avant demain" curated by Karine Tissot (from the collection FCAC Geneva), on a proposal by Marie-Ève Knoerle, Château de Penthes, Pregny (CH) Infinité ∞² - for Éliane Radigue, Galerie weisser elefant, Berlin |
| 2019 | L'artiste et les commissaires, curated by Pierre Granoux, LAGE EGAL, Berlin Faktor 92, Maren & Matthias Wagener's collection, Künstlerhaus Faktor, Hamburg alternative >f>acts, curated by DAG (GLUE), Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin Perron Art Prize, Kunsthaus Frankenthal 26x Bauhaus, curated by Marjolaine Lévy & Thibaut de Ruyter and , Institut Français Berlin, Bremen & Munich INTOTO #7, curated by Thomas Fougeirol, Julien Carreyn and Renaud Regnery, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin |
| 2018 | transition, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin fug(u)e, with Clara Broermann, Frauenmuseum Berlin e.V. guest at Kommunale Galerie Berlin FIGURE [OUT], curated by Pascal Brateau, idiotopie, Nancy |
| 2017 | Espace libre, White Elephant Gallery, Berlin BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite - the rear side, curated by Burkhard Brunn, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp &, curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (P) Reduction as condensation, curated by Burkhard Brunn, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Unfinished sympathy, curated by Nadia Lichtig, Salon du Salon #13, Marseille some thing", curated by Albert Weis, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin Comme les chutes d'eau déjà tremblent dedans la source", Espace Arts Plastiques Madeleine-Lambert, Vénissieux |
| 2016 | pilote : pilote", curated by Monique Wysterski, SEZ, Berlin True Mirror", Espace Commines, Paris |
| 2015 | Sans titres ( ) #2, Galerie un-spaced, Paris |
| 2014 | Raumbestandserhebung, curated by Conny Becker, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Humboldt University Berlin Kentucky Karaoke, DMNDKT, Berlin SSIIEE four, SSIIEE, independent exhibition project, Berlin |
| 2013 | Variable Surplus(with Markus Zimmermann), NuN, Berlin Raum, curated by Conny Becker and Marte Kiessling, Tête, Berlin |
| 2012 | Raum ermessen, Pforzheim Galerie Des accords parfaits, Espace Arts plastiques Vénissieux and CAP Saint-Fons Replay, Galerie du Dourven, Brittany |
| 2011 | Konstruktion Dekonstruktion, Projektraum Alte Feuerwache, Berlin Urzula, German video works, Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences |
| 2010 | Folly. Orte Zum Verweilen, Seeschlößchen Wustrau, Brandenburg Quatrain, Dada Post, Berlin |
| 2009 | Und... Und! (with Gab Heller), Spor klübü, Berlin Stadt Haus Raum (with Ines Doleschal), Städtische Galerie Ostfildern |
| 2008 | Brest (with Antonio Panetta), Showroom, Berlin Biotop, tmp.deluxe, temporary space for art&media, Berlin |
| 2007 | Steady state, vaulted cellar in the old royal city of Berlin |
| 2006 | Videofoyer (with Peter Frey), Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken |
| 2005 | Passion beyond reason, curated by G.Rockenschaub & G.Miller, Wallstreet one gallery, Berlin Junge Akademie", Galerie Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin |
| 2004 | Departure/arrival, Junge Akademie in the Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken Werkstatt Junge Akademie", Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
| 2001 | L'intimité (à vendre), Institut français, Stuttgart |
| 2000 | Entre voisins, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot and La BF15, Lyon |
| 1999 | Face à face, (with Dominique Blaise), Galerie Piano Nobile, Geneva |
| 1998 | 25th art fair of young artists, Gallery Karas Zagreb Art fair Guadalajara", Gallery la BF15 (MEX) |
| 1997 | Quand les machines rient, Center d'Art et de Plaisanterie, Montbéliard |
| 1996 | Les enfants des Lumière, Espace Arts Plastiques, Villefranche Portes ouvertes, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon Dusolal Macanru Ponkibruhu!, Center d'Art Plastique, St-Fons |
| 1995 | Critique-critique, Cité de l'Image, Lyon Critique-critique, Gallery Nuova Icona, Venice |
PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS, RESIDENCIES (SELECTION)
| 2024 | Nominated for the art award Losito Art Prize, Kressmann-Zschach Foundation |
| 2022 | Artist Scholarship "Neustart Kultur", Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (D) |
| 2021 | first prize (project "Zick-Zack"), public art competition, BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office) Berlin (D) |
| 2021 | second prize (project "Recherche"), public art competition, BKA Berlin (D) |
| 2021 | Artist Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (D) |
| 2020 | Artist Scholarship "Sonderstipendium", Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin (D) |
| 2018 | Nominated for the art award of Haus am Kleistpark Berlin (D) |
| 2011-12 | Artist in residence, at Collège Gérôme, Vesoul, DRAC Franche-Comté (F) |
| 2004 | Artist in residence International Summer Academy, at Museumspark Rüdersdorf, Akademie der Künste Berlin (D) |
| 2003 | Artist in residence "Die junge Akademie", Akademie der Künste, Berlin (D) |
| 2001 | Artist in residence, St-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Galerie Angle and DRAC Rhône-Alpes (F) |
| 1997/98 | Artist in residence "Art 3", at Institut français Stuttgart, Region Rhône-Alpes & Baden-Württemberg (D) |
| 1996 | Artist grant "Aide individuelle à la création", DRAC Rhône-Alpes (F) |
| 1994-95 | Post-graduate grant at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Lyon (F) |
COLLECTIONS
Espace Arts Plastiques Vénissieux, France
Private collections in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Saarland, Milan (I), Lyon (F), Los Angeles (USA), Brussels (B)